Mayor Plays Around

Our greasy SF mayor, Gavin Newsom, is having himself a little scandal. This is bigger than his last scandal, when he was seen one day without all the grease in his hair.

No, seriously, it was a big news story the day he went out without the greased and slicked back hair. I know the mayor is only 22, but it seems to be about time that he's involved in a slightly bigger scandal.

As it turns out, his campaign manager, Alex Tourk, is quitting after discovering that Newsom, his buddy, had an affair with his wife.

Of course she did. Tourk is always wearing that name badge, standing in front of charts, and smoothing the creases in his jacket.

Is that true? I don't know. I'd never heard of him until yesterday.

My favorite part of the story is Tourk's wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk. First of all, her name was Ruby Rippey. That's the kind of name you get when you marry someone because you love them very much and don't care that you'll have a silly name. But it was her maiden name. And she hyphenated. Which gives the name a weird, rapid-fire sound. It also isn't the name of someone who looks like she does.

That's another good part. She's not exactly Monica Lewinsky. Maybe there's something to Newsom's hair thing. The mayor was quick to admit that the affair happened. Of course he was.

Finally, there's how this came out. Ruby Rippey-Tourk is in some sort of rehab/12-step program and she told her husband about the affair as part of coming clean.

So was this some sort of coke-induced, city hall by night, torrid love affair? It's like a movie.